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A young gymnast from Kazakhstan … Universiade 2009 training.

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Thanks Mike.

The best resource online for Manna training tutorials is Gymnastic Bodies. (VIDEOS)

In Mandarin.

xie xie for the tutorial.

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Myself and most everyone predicted Japan would win Team at the 2011 Worlds and in London. They didn’t.

Yet again, as it was all quadrennial — China took the Gold.

Here’s a terrific pre-Olympics feature featuring Uchimura on Canadian TV.

Watch it on YouTube. (Embedding disabled.)

I was with gymnastics legend Abe Grossfeld when China beat Japan in Team at the Olympics. “Luck“, he responded. My inclination was to agree.

Both teams were lousy in prelims. But in the 3-up, 3-count Team Final, Japan should win 8 out of 10 times.

Perhaps his failures in Team will keep Kohei in the sport through to 2016.

I hope so.

(via supermura)

The Seattle native is now Men’s Head Coach in Scotland.

There’s a terrific new interview in the Herald Scotland.

As usual, Jim is well spoken. And outspoken.

… When … Holt says Scotland could be better off as a result of independence and should consider seeking separate membership of the International Olympic Committee whether or not the referendum fails in 2014, he is talking about sport rather than politics. …

read more – Champion of the also-rans has big plans for Scotland

Olympic bronze medallist Daniel Purvis and GBR Olympic alternate Daniel Keatings could both be eligible for that Team.

There’s some drama between his employer, the Scottish Gymnastics Association, and their government funding agency, Sport Scotland, too.

Good luck Jim.

Aliya Mustafina Online on Facebook:

Gymnasts are now enjoying a small break in Spain! There will be some time spent doing some training, mostly conditioning and other exercises to build up strength. There’s no plans to train on any apparatuses however until their return to Moscow on the 17’th. (But as always.. this decision can change.)

WordPress — the platform that powers this site — recently added the ability to embed tweets.

Seems to work well.

Thanks Brigid and all the other Couch Gymnast contributors worldwide. You’re doing a great job. I’d double your pay, but … 🙂

Aliya Mustafina Online has an entertaining interview from August 15th, newly posted in English. It features Aliya, Viktoria and Valentina Rodionenko. Enjoying some fun & celebrity.

On the Olympics, their new cars, and friendship of the two Olympic AA medalists.

read it here

Thanks Alan.

USA Gymnastics on Facebook:

An update on McKayla Maroney:

On Sept. 9, 2012 Olympic gold-medalist McKayla Maroney was injured on her uneven bars dismount (single flyaway) at the Ontario, Calif., performance of the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions. Maroney’s MRI showed a fractured tibia on her left leg, and she is currently in a brace to keep the leg stabilized. …

(Former gymnast Pink) was a big fan of the Women’s Gymnastics Team throughout the Summer Olympics, so they came to the show to surprise her

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related – Fierce Five Mania

Our Olympic Silver AA medalist is flying high in Germany.

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